TL/dr: Self care is important. Ask for and accept help. It’s hard but you will get through it, we’ve all been there to some degree even if we don’t admit it. Self care is important There are some great times, enjoy them. They’re only young once. And finally, self care is important.

I wouldn’t say it gets better, but it does get different as they grow. I was told it gets easier when they get past 35 (years).

You seem to be stuck in that day to day routine where you’re feeling spread too thin with no end in sight. We’ve all been there and you just have to dig in and survive it. This isn’t meant to make you feel worse, rather, that you’re not alone. You have a chance to show your boy a whole world of things and every day is a new experience so while you’re knackered, treasure the moments you can, they’re precious. My kids still talk about a bedtime story that I acted out one night, it was 15 years ago. It’s all worth the effort.

Now, you can’t do your job if you’re burnt out. You deserve and need some you time to recharge your batteries. Maybe you can even get some hours off work to help. Go for a walk, go to the gym, ride a bike, whatever you can do in a stolen hour for a break. Yes it sounds like another thing to add to your todo list… It is, but you need to be you to help him grow. Self care is more important than you would believe.

That you accept you have depression is a big step. It took me years to get there. Honestly, well done. Asking for help from organizations, employers, colleagues, friends, family or even internet strangers is not admitting defeat, it’s getting a power-up. It’s not easy, but it helps.

Weekdays are hard, plan for the weekends. We often took our kids for a walk in the woods when they were young. We’d come home cold, dirty and tired, but we’d collect things, climb trees, talk to friendly dogs, we’d just live a bit and connect with life and things that matter. In a few years you’ll turn into a source of money and transport.

Finally, having kids is a big life change, it’s ok to miss your previous life. It’s not necessarily gone for good, just paused if you want it to be. Its even ok to not like your kids sometimes… All kids are arseholes when they want to be. These things will pass, you will endure. If you have the choice between laughing or crying, try laughing first, but a good quiet sob can also help if you need one. You can do this.

Having been on the receiving end of an angry house cat I can confirm that they can be a fast moving ball of very sharp knives. Very much not to be underestimated, particularly if not wearing full body armour.

They should move out, turn it into a museum and set up a fit for purpose modern assembly building. Possibly somewhere like Birmingham, Leeds or Manchester.

People used to use a broom to detect hydrogen fires in (scientific) equipment. The fire normally being hard to see. I’m told that you would wave the broom around the equipment and when it burst into flame you’d found your fire.

Bitrex

Probably not an easy repair. Could you use a thin shim to keep the springs and driver pins in the body, with the key pins in the bible? May need to have the bible at the right angle and most of the way pushed home. If the springs aren’t too strong, it may just work. - doubt you can break it much more.

Alternatively, drill out the plugs in the body and tap the holes for grub screws, then you can repin it easily.

Well they’ve lost me as a user. Shame as I really liked it.

Would be a terrible shame if the aircon was to fail.

Toodledoo worked very well for me. Even had annual reminders for car tax & insurance etc.

Maybe they could try being less shit on the stuff that really matters then. Just a thought.

I’m sure this would be very much appreciated, but on the grand scheme of things, shouldn’t our government have far more pressing things to concern itself with right now?

I hate to say it but maybe Kier should learn from the headlights and try dazzling us with his performance.

Yeah, I don’t understand why we keep pushing for foreign investment, it’s a bit of free cash today for us to be thoroughly shafted every day thereafter.

well I do understand, the piggies need their noses in the trough.

Looking at the streaks around el28, could the large blue electrolytic have failed?

How does Aukus, the UK, US, Australia submarine deal work then? This politics stuff is confusing!

I’m genuinely in two minds in this one.

I’m currently middle aged and have a driving licence. In 20 years or so I probably won’t, so will have no formal ID. - That’s worrying if I need to present ID to receive services, therefore some official form of ID is a good thing. By that age I’ll probably want to ditch the smart phone for a simpler model and a simpler life (the eyes are going already) so will want a physical ID card, not something on my phone.

I am not sure how I’ll be able to live in older age in a digitalised society, but that’s for another rant.

Would I like an ID card that had all my medical record on it? Yes, I think that could be useful given the sometimes lack of communication been hospitals and GPs. It’s therefore a useful vehicle for good things if they were to be added.

Do I expect that it’ll be used intrusively at every possible opportunity? Youbetcha. Corporations will in due course find ways to profile with it, as they do with loyalty schemes and credit cards. State intrusion both local and foreign will also probably happen such as 5 eyes data sharing.

Do I trust that the government could actually pull this off? They can’t build a few miles of fast railway. This will cost billions, result in many brown envelopes and take ages. I certainly worry about the cyber security of such a system if it happens. Whatever happens it must be a wholly UK project.

Will it stop migrants? No. Will it stop the shadow workforce? No. I don’t believe it will do any of these.

I’ll say it. There are far worse regimes out there, but I do not trust my government. I do not believe they work for my best interests nor those of much of society. I therefore deeply suspect the motives of this scheme and don’t believe it’ll solve the problems they say it will.

They don’t want to sting you.

Pick the fruit up in the earlyish morning when it’s cool. Do it carefully so you’re not squashing any wasps that are about and you should be fine.

Move slowly and don’t ‘flap’.

Unless you have health problems a couple of stings are painful, but not that bad.

Not long ago I had a Queen wasp fall into my T-shirt resulting in five stings on my back. I dosed up on antihistamines and was OK in an hour or so. - yes, the wasp was captured and safely released.

I’m guessing that you’re in the US and have strange rules about eliminating nature from your gardens… I’d just leave them to it. Wasps actually do a really important job and most of the time they just go about their own business. This time of year is hard for them as their preferred food has gone so they seek sugar, any sugar to survive, but the windfalls won’t last forever and then the wasps themselves will also be gone until the spring.

The only time I’d deal with wasps is if there was a nest either in my house or shed, or by a door that I need to use. They’re fascinating creatures when you get a chance to watch them.

Enjoy the nature, there’s not much of it around nowadays.

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The smell of people in general. Not sweat as such, just that ‘human’ aroma. - hate it. Public transport is awful. Funnily enough, I can’t differentiate between people, they all smell the same.

It’s a very large glitch in the matrix